AN EX-DRAYMIN is looking forward to sharing his musical knowledge with the next generation through his new business.

Craig Penman spent 10 years playing with Rosyth band The Draymin before going on to release two solo albums under the name Crombie Point.

Through his new venture, which goes by the same name, Craig hopes to teach kids in schools and colleges about guitar, songwriting, and music production.

"I've had the idea for years and never really had the guts to do it, it was just this year I thought, 'Right, I'm going to do this, and go for it'," he said.

"I've liked helping other people with music and watching what other people do and I had kind of done it on the side for friends and friends of friends and people said I should think about doing it and I just thought, 'Aye, OK, and just brushed it off.

"I'm not making any tracks for myself at the moment, I have a couple of collaborations coming up, I'll always still be involved in music-making but I think after doing my own thing for a few years, I just want to do stuff with other people, especially now things are becoming more relaxed with COVID.

"I've never run a business but I want to do it properly and make it work."

While in the band, Craig played frequently at festivals such as T in the Park, Rockness, SXSW, and Liverpool Soundcity.

He wants to take the knowledge picked up during this time and help other budding musicians get to the same place.

He told the Press: "It wasn't until I started writing things down I realised, you kind of take for granted all the things you were doing in the past, in the band days we didn't have a manager a lot of the time.

"I went to college in Greenock two nights a week to learn music business to help out, that has always stayed with me.

"I didn't realise how much experience I had, I've probably downplayed it saying I was the guitarist and songwriter, there was loads more to it.

"When we first started, it was just passing CDs out at gigs and then it changed to MySpace and you had to make your page look better than everyone else's so we had to learn html to help ours stand out.

"Dunfermline has always had a good live music scene.

"I have tons of notes written down of local people I want to get in contact with but I don't want to jump the gun, I'll build slowly and take my time.

"There has been a lot of people getting in touch wanting to learn different things, even just guitar or songwriting or music production.

"I was really wanting to focus on the production side but a lot of people just want to learn guitar and I'm cool with that!

"That's how most people start, I suppose, that's how I started, playing around with Beatles songbooks and things like that, the next thing you know you are having a bash at writing your own song, and then you want to learn the next part, how to record it and things."

He mainly hopes to work with schools and colleges, as well as other local venues and groups.

"I'm not so much focused on the income side, I don't think that would work for me, I'm just letting it build gradually," he explained.

"I've had something from Dunfermline High School, that was something I was hoping would happen further down the line, but, as always, somebody knows somebody who knows somebody, nothing's happened yet but I am going through the disclosures to try and make those things happen.

"I had a meeting with Edinburgh College yesterday and that was really positive, they are looking for people like myself.

"I want to have lots of little projects happening, keep busy, and be involved in something musical every day, that was always my dream.

"I thought I might as well give it a bash, before I get too old.

"I would love to see some new bands from the area get somewhere, and if I can help them out.

"For now, I want to get the word out as much as I can and make people aware there is something there."